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W0NO's station in the farm/ranch office. K0WA at rate station, W0NO and K0BJ conferring, AB0S at S&P station. |
The main tower with stacked yagis and 40. Photo taken from near the 160 tower, used as a halfwave on 80 for this contest. |
This collaboration of Lee, Tim and various others has won multi class in the past, and typically finishes in or near the Top 10, often capturing Midwest Division in the process.
This contest was our first time working anything other than a token mult/S&P operation. We have some improvements to make but it went fairly well. The mult station stumbled across VY1JA calling unanswered CQs on 15 early in the contest, and hastily called him on 25 watts and the windom. Got him first call, but it took poor J quite a bit to dig out our exchange. As with many contesters, we were nail-bitin’ for a NL contact and were happy to see the webcluster spot Sunday afternoon. Got him on the 3rd call for our sweep. Thanks to all those lukewarm contesters in odd places who put up with hordes of callers pestering them! Ended up with around 1240 QSOs.
Our team had the proud (?) distinction last year of being the only Top 10 multi to lose a relative position due to busted reports. We hope that along with more Qs from the mult station, we managed to produce a cleaner log this time. Anyway, lots of fun for 3 long-time ham friends and their accommodating and gung-ho host.
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